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labor market outcomes. The results suggest that young women respond to early labor market prospects by changing the quality …
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I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …
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I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894094
education in Finland. At both margins, admission to further education increases the probability that women form families - i … results contrast a common perception that educational attainment makes it harder for women to form families and men more … inputs are important in shaping these skills, these results align with the notion that education may make women more …
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Purpose The underrepresentation of women in engineering has important consequences for meeting the need for a larger …, talented scientific and technological labor force. Increasing the proportion of women faculty in engineering will help increase … the persistence probabilities of women undergraduate and graduate students in engineering, as well as contribute to the …
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first marriage for both genders, with the effect being much more statistically robust for men than women. The regression … approximately 3 years for men and almost 2 years for women. Given the compelling effect of the 1947 reform, it is likely that our …
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Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual's career, and economic shocks may therefore...
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Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual's career, and economic shocks may therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470397
We examine the work experiences during middle school and high school of U.S. females and males and find that most of the child-oriented work such as babysitting and camp counseling is done by females. If the type of work undertaken while young affects either development of specific human capital...
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We examine the work experiences during middle school and high school of U.S. females and males and find that most of the child-oriented work such as babysitting and camp counseling is done by females. If the type of work undertaken while young affects either development of specific human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575486